HOUSE OF LORDS.
MR. ASQUITH ON REFORM. STILL TOO POWERFUL. AN OBSTACLE TO LIBERALISM. By telegraph— Press Association—Copyright London, March 12. Tho Prime Minister, Mr. Asquith, continued the debate in the House of Commons on Mr. Walter Long's amendment to the Address-in-Reply, that it would bo improper to proceed With the Home Rule and Welsh Church Disestablishment Bills while tho House of Lords .remained unreformed without reference to the electors.
Mr. Asquith said that the House of Lords, in rejecting the Budget of 1909, had shattered the old constitutional arrangements. Everything since had been the inevitable rosult of their arbitrary and revolutionary proceeding. The House of Lords at present was a serious and formidable obstacle to Liberal legislation. The Parliament Act had left them too much t power, which they ought not to possess. He would welcome the day, and he hoped it woijld be soon, when he could submit a plan making the House of' Lords a true and impartial judicial authority. .
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1698, 14 March 1913, Page 5
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163HOUSE OF LORDS. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1698, 14 March 1913, Page 5
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